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Nationally renowned speakers

Politicians, journalists, and government officials frequently participate in Miller Center panel discussions

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UVA students are enthusiastic participants in Miller Center events throughout the year

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Robust debate, without fear or favor

Miller Center speakers address the nation's most pressing problems—sometimes eliciting protests

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At the Miller Center, we believe that opposing positions can both have merit; that we can investigate questions of fact and discuss questions of opinion; that we can be open to changing our minds; and that our political system benefits from compromise. That’s why every year we bring together Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives. We convene dozens of events fostering civil and intellectual dialogue among scholars, politicians, journalists, and citizens.

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White House in front of Eisenhower Executive Office Building

November 21, 2024 10:00 AM

Transitions: Planning and staffing a presidency

  • Christina M. Kinane

  • Katherine B. McGuire

  • Molly E. Reynolds

  • Kathryn Dunn Tenpas

  • Louisa Terrell

  • Peter Wehner

  • William J. Antholis (moderator)

  • Sarah A. Binder (moderator)

Location: The Brookings Institution
Falk Auditorium
1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20036
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ONLINE

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Democracy Dialogues

November 19, 2024 10:00 AM

How Americans can disagree better

  • Spencer Cox

  • Phil Murphy

  • Mary Kate Cary (co-moderator)

  • Jennifer Lawless (co-moderator)

  • James E. Ryan (introduction)

Location: UVA's Rotunda
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ONLINE

2024 painted on road with arrow pointing ahead

November 14, 2024 11:00 AM

Election 2024: Moving toward the transition

  • Melody Barnes

  • Eric Edelman

  • John Harris

  • William Antholis (moderator)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

map of United States in flag pattern

November 07, 2024 09:30 AM

Election 2024: Post-election analysis

  • William Antholis

  • Melody Barnes

  • Mary Kate Cary

  • Ashley Jardina

  • Ian Solomon (moderator)

Location: Garrett Hall, University of Virginia
235 McCormick Road
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

election voting booths and American flags

October 29, 2024 04:00 PM

Election 2024: State of the race

  • William Antholis

  • Ron Christie

  • Heather Evans

  • Paul Freedman

  • William Galston

  • Guian McKee

  • Mike Emanuel (moderator)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

Executive order rubber stamp

October 21, 2024 02:00 PM

Is the American presidency built on empty promises?

  • Kenneth Lowande

  • Sarada Peri

  • Rachel Augustine Potter (moderator)

Location: Small Special Collections Library Auditorium
170 McCormick Road
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

Justice Breyer informal photo 2023

Henry J. Abraham Distinguished Lecture

October 17, 2024 11:00 AM

Justice Stephen Breyer: 'Reading the Constitution'

  • Justice Stephen Breyer

  • Risa Goluboff (co-moderator)

  • Barbara Perry (co-moderator)

Location: Caplin Auditorium
University of Virginia School of Law
580 Massie Road
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

image with medical worker and tablet

October 10, 2024 01:00 PM

Election 2024: The future of health care

  • Adam Boehler

  • Bob Kocher

  • Vivian Riefberg (moderator)

Location: ONLINE ONLY

American flag waving

September 30, 2024 11:30 AM

Safeguarding the homeland

  • Kenneth Wainstein

  • Ashley Deeks (moderator)

Location: Garrett Hall, University of Virginia
235 McCormick Road
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

Padlock with American flag on keyboard

September 24, 2024 11:00 AM

Election 2024: The threat of foreign interference

  • Danielle Citron

  • David Salvo

  • Michael Vatis

  • Mara Rudman (moderator)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
&
ONLINE

international flags painted on wooden blocks

September 20, 2024 11:00 AM

Election 2024: Foreign policy choices

  • Brian Katulis

  • Michael E. O'Hanlon

  • Eric Edelman (moderator)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
&
ONLINE

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Miller Center 50th Anniversary

September 12, 2024 11:00 AM

Revisiting the Ford presidency

  • Ken Hughes

  • Guian McKee

  • Barbara Perry

  • Russell Riley

  • Marc Selverstone (moderator)

  • William Antholis (introduction)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
&
ONLINE

Aerial view of Pentagon

August 29, 2024 11:00 AM

'Watchdogs': Holding the government accountable

  • Glenn A. Fine

  • Craig Whitlock

  • Kathryn Dunn Tenpas (moderator)

  • Guian McKee (introduction)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
&
ONLINE

small replica of White House and coins on American flag

Project on Democracy and Capitalism

May 10, 2024 01:00 PM

The 2024 election and the struggle for America's economic future

  • Paul Glastris

  • Suzanne Mettler

  • Scott C. Miller

  • Sidney Milkis (moderator)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Road
Charlottesville, VA
&
ONLINE

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris meet with congressional leadership to discuss the bipartisan supplement agreement for foreign aid and legislation to avoid a government shutdown, Tuesday, February 27, 2024, in the Oval Office. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schutlz)

James C. Lehrer Lecture

May 02, 2024 11:00 AM

Where does Congress go from here?

  • Lisa Desjardins

  • William Antholis (moderator)

  • Stephen M. Burns (introduction)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
&
ONLINE

Donkey and elephant with red white and blue overlay

April 19, 2024 11:00 AM

Bipartisan solutions in Congress

  • William Antholis

  • Barbara Comstock

  • L. F. Payne

Location: CODE Building
240 West Main Street
Charlottesville, VA 22902

Scales with red and blue ropes pulling in opposite directions

April 15, 2024 02:00 PM

Holding our presidents accountable

  • Tim Heaphy

  • Barbara Perry

  • Saikrishna Prakash

  • Micah Schwartzman (moderator)

  • William Antholis (introduction)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Road
Charlottesville, VA
&
ONLINE

American flag superimposed with image of soldiers

April 11, 2024 02:00 PM

National defense strategy: Asking what you can do for your country

  • Eric Edelman

  • Jane Harman

  • General Jack Keane

  • Thomas Mahnken

  • Mara Rudman

  • Alissa Starzak

  • William Antholis (moderator)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
&
ONLINE

Blue map showing Gaza

March 25, 2024 02:30 PM

The Israel–Hamas conflict: Ways forward

  • Suzanne Maloney

  • Nimrod Novik

  • Ghaith al-Omari

  • Mara Rudman (moderator)

  • Ian Baucom (introduction)

Location: University of Virginia's Rotunda
1826 University Avenue
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

"Leaders of the Continental Congress," an engraving with Adams, Morris, Hamilton, and Jefferson

Project on Democracy and Capitalism

March 18, 2024 05:30 PM

Hamilton vs. Jefferson

  • Frank Cogliano

  • Joanne B. Freeman

  • Scott C. Miller (moderator)

  • Laurent Dubois (introduction)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Road
Charlottesville, VA
&
ONLINE

two helicopters flying over yellow-orange sky

March 13, 2024 11:00 AM

'Diplomats at War'

  • Charles Trueheart

  • Marc Selverstone (moderator)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

Members of the 115th Congress mingle on the House floor on January 3, 2017, the opening day of the new session.

March 01, 2024 11:00 AM

Imagining a better future for Congress

  • William Galston

  • Molly Reynolds

  • Philip Wallach

  • Sidney Milkis (moderator)

  • William Antholis (introduction)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
&
ONLINE

Front facade of the Nationa Archives building

February 21, 2024 11:00 AM

Preserving presidential records

  • Colleen Shogan

  • Russell Riley

  • Marc Selverstone

  • Barbara Perry (moderator)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

U.S., Russian, and Chinese flags on desktop swinging balls

Ambassador William C. Battle Symposium on American Diplomacy

February 16, 2024 08:30 AM

Reimagining nuclear deterrence

  • Lisa E. Gordon-Hagerty

  • Rebeccah Heinrichs

  • John Hyten

  • Frank Miller

  • Keith Payne

  • Mara Rudman

  • Melanie Sisson

  • Becca Wasser

  • Philip B. K. Potter (moderator)

  • Charles Richard (moderator)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
&
ONLINE

Firing a 122 mm howitzer D-30 in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, March 2023

February 06, 2024 03:30 PM

Two years into the Ukraine War

  • William Antholis

  • Alexander Bick

  • Dale Copeland

  • Eric Edelman

  • Thomas Graham

  • Harry Harding

  • Syaru Shirley Lin

  • Scott C. Miller

  • Stephen D. Mull

  • John M. Owen IV

  • Philip B. K. Potter

  • Mara Rudman

  • Marc Selverstone

  • Allan C. Stam

  • James B. Steinberg

  • Yuri Urbanovich

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
&
ONLINE

aerial photograph of Shenzhen port

February 01, 2024 02:00 PM

'China's Law of the Sea'

  • Isaac Kardon

  • Delicia Gonzales Zimmerman

  • Aynne Kokas (moderator)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
&
ONLINE

White House at night

January 23, 2024 01:00 PM

'Year Zero: The Five-Year Presidency'

  • Martha Joynt Kumar

  • Chris Liddell

  • David Marchick

  • William Antholis (moderator)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
&
ONLINE

close-up photo of various flags of world nations

December 15, 2023 11:00 AM

'The Ecology of Nations'

  • Kristen Eichensehr

  • Aynne Kokas

  • John M. Owen IV

  • Eric Edelman (moderator)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
&
ONLINE

President William Howard Taft, signs New Mexico into statehood at the White House. The signing was witnessed by dignitaries on Jan. 6, 1912.

December 08, 2023 11:00 AM

'The Presidency and the American State'

  • Lindsay M. Chervinsky

  • Stephen Rockwell

  • Steven Gillon (moderator)

Location: ONLINE ONLY

US and China flags

November 28, 2023 10:30 AM

Future-oriented China-U.S. relations and cooperation

  • Stephen D. Mull

  • Xu Xueyuan

  • William Antholis (introduction)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
&
ONLINE

UVA student protest at Garrett Hall

Democracy Dialogues

November 09, 2023 01:00 PM

Free speech at universities

  • Jennifer Ruth

  • Jonathan Zimmerman

  • Jered Cooper (student speaker)

  • Leslie Kendrick (moderator)

  • Ian Baucom (introduction)

Location: UVA's Rotunda
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ONLINE

Fist on top of nuclear button with Russian flag superimposed

November 02, 2023 01:00 PM

Nuclear deterrence and the new geopolitics

  • Charles Richard

  • Philip B. K. Potter (moderator)

  • William Antholis (introduction)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE